drakonka

37 ms·

421.
by drakonka 4y ago
I don't think phone numbers are quite _as_ searchable as other information. I get fewer spam calls here than I did in Australia. A few years ago a phone provider called me and actually offered a really good mobile deal, which I'm
422.
by drakonka 4y ago
I really look forward to trying these when I move back to Stockholm next year. If there's a station near my neighborhood (I think it's a bit too far away now, but the city is expanding this way...) I might sell my own e-bike and j
423.
by drakonka 4y ago
Something about designing and building life simulations, if I was good enough at it to teach such a thing (I am not).
424.
by drakonka 4y ago
Things that have helped me is to only eat lunch (or anything, really) if and when I'm actually hungry, and when I do eat it stick to something lower in carbs if possible. If I want rice or pasta one day I'll eat that, but I realiz
425.
by drakonka 4y ago
This seems like it might be premature optimization. Have you seen any particular tendencies to bad typing habits already that aren't normal for a 6-year-old? Maybe wait a while to see how his typing develops on its own? By the time we
426.
by drakonka 4y ago
Today I was going to be writing, but I spent much of it lazing around on the Internet instead... I did get _some_ writing done, but not as much as I would've hoped. I am on the last few chapters of my next story draft and just need to
427.
by drakonka 4y ago
I work at a distributed company with teammates all over the world and the founders in the US, while I'm in Europe. My meetings are often in the late afternoon or evening for this reason, which I've grown to really enjoy. Here&#x27
428.
by drakonka 4y ago
Thank you, I've been at it for a fairly long time also. I'm not totally sure how your reply relates to my comment, since my first sentence says: "Of course it's possible to conduct interviews without giving out sensitive
429.
by drakonka 4y ago
I've simply succumbed to the idea that I get to decide on a case by case basis if a company is interesting enough to sign an NDA to learn more about. I appreciate the somewhat wasted pity I guess, but if you legitimately think that&#x2
430.
by drakonka 4y ago
I recently did a lightning talk at our eng all-hands about this very thing: how I am quick to learn things, but also quick to forget them after I stop using them regularly. And forgetting things I'm not using is totally fine in my opin
431.
by drakonka 4y ago
Of course it's possible to conduct interviews without giving out sensitive info, but the fact that it's possible doesn't really answer the question of why it's so bad to conduct interviews the other way. Personally, I&#x
432.
by drakonka 4y ago
I think it's a very valid preference to have, but I'm not sure how cutting out potentially interesting companies to work is by default any smarter than signing any NDA blindly. Edit: I changed my mind; signing an NDA blindly is le
433.
by drakonka 4y ago
I didn't comment on whether it's smart or not. That would be an impossible assessment considering NDAs can be completely different. I only expressed the sentiment that in some industries it is a common practice and not some unhear
434.
by drakonka 4y ago
Anecdotally, from Sweden: Starting a limited company in Sweden is relatively easy, though you do need something like 20,000 SEK to deposit into your company bank account. I'm just a one-person limited company use case not looking to ra
435.
by drakonka 4y ago
I've had to sign an NDA several times before interviewing; it covered information shared about the company's product or proprietary technology (games industry in this case). I've always thought that was fairly common, and it
436.
by drakonka 4y ago
I have not yet watched the full video but it looks similar to the talk I heard Michael Levin give (titled "Robot Cancer") at ALIFE 2020, and it was fascinating. I posted some hastily taken notes on my blog at the time[0] and still
437.
by drakonka 4y ago
I've felt this way for a really long time with touchscreen keyboards in general. I'm pretty sure I'd be overall faster when taking into account accuracy with my old 9-button dumb phone and no autocorrect. I used to be _really
438.
by drakonka 4y ago
This thread and your comment made me look into BetterUp. I've been both drawn to and skeptical of this kind of coaching in the past, thinking of coaches as a lower-entry-bar version of therapists. I guess I questioned how a coach would
439.
by drakonka 4y ago
I myself understand that and would still want to come, but I don't want to do it at the expense of causing more stress to my family over there. If I insisted on coming to see them now even after my uncle asked me not to, it would be se
440.
by drakonka 4y ago
With great difficulty. In seriousness, I've recently been doing a lot more front-end work in my position and have had to pick it up pretty quickly after years of desktop, core tech, and backend work. TypeScript is my new best friend. S
441.
by drakonka 4y ago
I hope you and your loved ones remain as safe as possible. Just days before the recent renewed volley of missile strikes all over the country, I asked my uncle if it would be alright to take a similar route to come see them (from Poland to
442.
by drakonka 4y ago
This is not something I do in a very structured way, but I've always been interested in optimizing my performance and health. To be honest, I sort of assumed most people in tech are similar in this tendency, although when verbalized I
443.
by drakonka 4y ago
I don't think they'll get negativity so much as people will just be less likely to click on them. When I see a Medium link I often just skip it, expecting to see either some paywall/registration popup or maybe a lower quality
444.
by drakonka 4y ago
I think it's a balance. I worked at a large company for years and never felt weird picking up coding tasks that weren't strictly in my task list or even immediate responsibility area if I felt they needed to be done, or if I just
445.
by drakonka 4y ago
> maybe I should have added that the parental leave only applies to the mother. Fathers can just take a month off. That's unfortunate. Where I live parental leave is split between both parents (I think it is 480 days total), I think
446.
by drakonka 4y ago
Go, C#, Python, TypeScript are all languages I've now worked with extensively and can quickly jump into any project on. I've also worked with Rust and C++ and can kind of visualize their general "shape", but am not as im
447.
by drakonka 4y ago
I will also not have a child and live in an EU country where parents get a lot of paid parental leave. I think it's great. Why wouldn't I want to work alongside happy, less stressed coworkers who aren't constantly _extra_ sle
448.
by drakonka 4y ago
Every other Saturday is different right now. On the Saturdays where I have the house to myself, I usually plan to write and sometimes it even happens. Sometimes I write in a cafe, other times at home. Other times I spend too much time fiddl
449.
by drakonka 4y ago
Not finding a better home for my rescued Rainbow Lorikeet when I was moving countries. I had him since he was a baby, having found him with an injured wing in the middle of the road. We took him to the vet, who said that they were considere
450.
by drakonka 4y ago
I think the point is that it doesn't matter. It's a scene showing regular people doing regular things. The things they do might be bad, good, or neither, and most good people almost certainly have bad traits (and vice versa). Show

More ›